We are making the leap into the world of migratory beekeeping this winter. On Wednesday we loaded up the girls to spend the winter in northern California to prepare them for the almond pollination that arrives in February. They should arrive at their destination today, and then they will be able to fly in temperatures […]
We finished the latest round on the bee circuit last Friday. That did involve getting the truck stuck at one location at the bottom of a long hill, but fortunately the landowner was near at hand with his tracked skid steer from our friends at Caterpillar. That was a very short term holdup, and I […]
The other day I dropped into the well-loved brewpub in Solon, Big Grove Brewery, and saw that our honey had been put to good use by their brewer. He concocted the cleverly named and quite tasty Good Day 2 DIPA. I complimented his good work 🙂 We’re hoping to put honey from the bees we […]
The newly distributed bees in the last post reminded of some of our earlier adventures that did not get shared earlier this spring–or extended winter as it turned out. Generally images of bee transportation in an Iowan late March don’t have snow as the featured background. I guess they are still pretty in their way! […]
Spring is just around the corner! That is easy to say for me since the temperatures are climbing into the upper forties and fifties this week. Let the sun shine and the bees fly! It has put me in the mood to update www.ebertqueens.com and list nucs and singles for May 2018 pick-up. I’m hearing […]
I was thinking back to the meeting in San Diego and the moments that caused some type of reaction in my mind. One of them related to a couple of new studies suggesting that mite loads in September are the strongest predictor of overwintering success going into the next spring. Basically the odds of survival […]